The CENSUS HISTORY PROJECT focuses on the exploration, extraction, and analysis of U.S. Census data for further research purposes. Our users group takes on a critical historical approach to understanding population-level data on the United States, the methods used to gather the data, and the measures applied to explore, extract, and analyze the data.
Images from the U.S. Census Bureau and the California African American Museum1.
Group Info
group: census-users
initiated: fall 2022
Project PIs
- Nathan Alexander (Howard University)
- Hye Ryeon Jang (Morehouse College)
- Christopher Agbonkhese (Bates College)
Contributors
- Sayid Achilov (Brown University)
- Myles Ndiritu (Morehouse College)
- Jibek Gupta (Howard University)
- Zoe Williams (Howard University)
- Maxwell Messiah (Dalton)
- Bayowa Onabajo (Howard University)
Funding
Funding for this project is provided by Data.org and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Ancillary files:
api.Rhelps new users generate and store a US Census API key.You should never share your Census API key. Follow the steps below:
Set up an environment variable to hold your api key with
usethis::edit_r_environ()Transfer information into
.Renviron(pop-up file)- Insert
CENSUS_API_KEY='your_api_key'into the.Renvironfile
- Insert
Insert your census API key via
Sys.getenv("CENSUS_API_KEY")